The Green Papers2005 Political PartiesParties Grouped by Classification

Major Parties (those parties which received electoral votes through winning a plurality of a state's [or the District of Columbia's] popular vote in any presidential election between 1976 and 2004)

Democrats and affiliates

Republicans and affiliates

Third Parties

Major Third Parties and affiliates (any Party, other than the Democrats and the Republicans, receiving a minimum of 2/10ths of 1 percent of the nationwide popular vote in any presidential election between 1976 and 2004 and which fielded candidates in the previous presidential election [2004] are hereby defined as "Major third parties" for the purposes of "The Green Papers" website. Excluded from this are non-party Independent bids for President which received at least 0.2% of the nationwide popular vote. See Criteria for including Major Third Parties)

Other Third Parties (i.e., not a Major Third Party)

Independents (covering Unaffiliated, Nonpartisan and all the other synonyms/euphemisms for Independent)